I have always loved makeup. Back when I was in high school and officially allowed to wear it (13), I would wear complementary colors: lavender on my eyes and rose on my lips, pale green on my eyes and apricot on my lips. I always used to get a lot of compliments on my makeup, and people always asking me to do theirs. I even went to school for it but never ended up doing it professionally, though I have done some weddings and the like. In recent years I've gotten out of it, not really sure why. I guess with the mental health stuff it kind of made everyday life stuff seem unimportant, useless, trivial. But I still go through periods, or have special occasions or dates with my partner, where I will wear makeup. I have dark hair and eyes, and lately I have been using black eyeliner, black eyeshadow, and mascara, and then clear lip gloss. Sometimes I'll wear something a bit different: red lips, pale frosty shadow, cat's-eye eyeliner. Or more Earth mama stuff, with this glow stick I got from Lush that's a pale rosy pink and a glitter bar, and just mascara, and colored lip balm.